Highly dislike the desynth system

[JustPlainLucas]

I will state my displeasure first and foremost with not being able to skill cap each job. I will also state my displeasure in the fact that other skills go down as I'm bringing my main ones up. Now, I don't even want to level any other desynth skills at all due to be being afraid my GSM skill will decrease.

You know this taking a lot of fun out of crafting, right? Why did you let us master each crafting job (and battle job as well) if you cap our desynthing? Why make it where in order to do one thing such as desynth an i70 leather ring, I have to watch my GSM skill go down 50 points? It's ridiculous! Name a scenario in real life where an artisan suddenly forgets how pull apart a piece of furniture when he's dismantling a piece of jewelry. Please, fix this. Stop making this game feel so much like WORK!

[SarcasmMisser]

Post a screenshot of your GSM going down 50 points from a single desynth.

[ZephyrAM]

It's specialization, and yes, if you really care to compare it to real life, someone that spends time on one skill 'will' slowly lose skill at other things. A carpenter who switches careers to construction work and later goes back to carpentry isn't going to be as good at it as they were when they left.

Further, you're exaggerating the loss. You 'occasionally' lose .01 points in a random other desynth craft while you're raising one and under 300 total. After 300, I imagine it's more severe, as it has to stay balanced, but it may well depend on how much you're raising one by.

[Ddmk]

If you really wanna master all create an alt to pick up 3 your missing I'm doing gsm bsm and ltw on main
And arm wvr alc on alt

[Jynx]

I'm glad the game finally has some sort of choice finally (It's not like you can't change whenever you want) I enjoy being able to specialize making being high in one thing a rarer thing and therefore having more value from crafters.

Shame that crafting still isn't a huge part of the game.

[Elven]

Why lose anything at all I agree, just like they tried to do with the relics to force you to level one character only. I don't like just playing one character I like to do all the jobs.

[Nutz]

I was unhappy with the cap initially as well, but seeing the system that they designed I don't feel that more than 2 or 3 classes capable of desynthing are needed. CUL aside, only the objects you can desynth are different, not so much the results. Sure there are primal weapons/ accessories to think about, but given the gil sink that desynthing is, I'm glad that my GSM can get most everything out of this system and perhaps I'll level BSM in desynthing as well. The only hurdle imposed by the restriction is that you can't desynth EVERY item you come across. You have to plan accordingly. This is most relevant with primal weapons, which I suppose is a huge sticking point for some, but I personally have little interest in that.

[Jeykama]

It's just sort of irritating when you're lv80+ in a desynth skill, and levelling a second skill causes it to slowly drop 0.01 0.01 0.01... Not much, but post-lv70 desynthing skill is expensive.

[Zumi]

Yes you do lose points when leveling another desynth up. There is a RNG chance at losing points. It doesn't make any sense because they give you 300 points to work with. They should just offer a reset to certain crafts once you hit the 300 cap.

[Nutz]

Yes you do lose points when leveling another desynth up. There is a RNG chance at losing points. It doesn't make any sense because they give you 300 points to work with. They should just offer a reset to certain crafts once you hit the 300 cap.

I agree it makes no sense. I wonder if their intent was to prevent players from keeping level 100 on multiple classes. The way it stands if you get to 100 (which is ridiculous enough) doing any desynthing on another class could drop you to 99.99, which will give you the same success rate that you'd have at 99.00 next time you desynth with that class. Sure it can be made up with a single successful desynth, but you'll be missing 1.5% success rate on that desynth (and perhaps some hidden benefits).